Subramanian Swamy

Subramanian Swamy (15 September 1939-) was an Indian politician who served as President of the Janata Party from 1990 to 2013, when it merged into the BJP.

Biography
Subramanian Swamy was born in Mylapore, Madras Presidency, British India (now Tamil Nadu, India) in 1939, and he worked in the academia before entering politics. He supported economic liberalism and opposed Indira Gandhi, and the right-wing Bharatiya Jana Sangh appointed him to the Rajya Sabha. During the Indian Emergency, he fled to the United States, and he returned in 1976. Swamy went on to become one of the founders of the Janata Party, serving as its president until 1990 to 2013. Swamy was a far-right politician, opposing anti-defamation laws, supported the government of Sri Lanka against the Tamil Tigers, and demanded that only Muslims who acknowledged that their ancestors were Hindus would be able to vote. In 2018, after homosexuality was decriminalized in India, he claimed that gay bars would appear everywhere and that HIV would rapidly spread.